Quotes About Performance

I go to the movies a lot, and I regret when I see some actor that I used to like, to find them offering no more surprises.

It was only when I realized how actors have the power to move people that I decided to pursue acting as a career.

My job was not to exist at all. Though too much alive to play it to perfection, I feel I performed a fairly adept imitation.

Because the opposite of fascism isn't anarchy, it's theater. When the world is fucked, you go to the theater, you go to the shine, and when the bad men come, all there is left to do is sing them down.

Because the opposite of fascism isn't anarchy, it's theater.

Actors are liars. Writers, too. The whole lot of them, even the horn players and the fortune-tellers and the freaks and the strongmen. Even the ladies with rings in their noses and high heels on their feet playing violins all along the Pier and the lie they are all singing and dancing and saying is We can get the old world back again .

You're better off—theatrical folk are nothing but a bundle of monologues and anxiety headaches.

Butterfield Blues Band, Vanilla Fudge...

Humans have historically used the arts in integrative ways, particularly within the contexts of enactment, ceremony, performance, and ritual.

To recite my poems to an audience is to be slapped awake by my limitations. I confront the infinite chasm between the audience's conception of Poet and the underwhelming evidence of me as that poet. I just don't look the part.

Even the genteel ladies in the high stands opened their delicate throats and pierced the sky with their soprano squealing.

I hate clowns. You can't see what they're thinking.

I knew I'd just done one of the most amazing things that I will ever get a chance to do. Just to be part of a musical that's not your background and to pull it off and to think that we've done something that's really special.

Ik speel de rol die ik ben.

An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.

If you wish your audience to cry, you must shed tears yourself, but if you wish to make them laugh you must contrive to look as serious as a judge.

I believe acting is very physical, and when you have to fight or do those kinds of things, it takes a lot of respect not to allow yourself to go off and hurt yourself or someone else.

It's certain that the death of an actor can be on a television screen playing the same thing every week.

while a system that is swapping is writing entire processes from memory to disk.

The nice thing about jazz is its imperfection….Imcompleteness distinguishes jazz from any other type of music. In classical music, for example, the score contains all the notes to be played. The performer reads it and plays the written notes, nothing less but also nothing more. His performance is all about the many different ways he can interpret those notes, but the notes are always the same. In jazz, the score in just the starting point.

When he finished, summing up the meaning of what he had played in two conclusive, melancholy scales, there was a burst of friendly applause. And I also applauded and kept doing so until I was sure he had seen me, because I was starting to realize that there are such things as misunderstandings and I didn't want there to be any at that moment.

As an ersatz opening batsman, Tavaré did not so much score runs as smuggle them out by stealth.

Richards double-century

When you're in that zone there's nothing really the defense can do ... It doesn't matter who's sticking you because everything looks good.